Experience

I’m a Senior Associate in our Dispute Resolution team. I work with a range of clients – charities, social enterprises, corporates and private individuals – and always with the aim of resolving their disputes pragmatically and cost effectively.

I advise across a number of areas, from assisting with thorny commercial contract disputes to helping boards and their organisations manage governance disagreements or resolve member/shareholder and other stakeholder clashes. I also advise clients on complex duty of care and vicarious liability cases and assist with internal investigations and regulatory enquiries.  I frequently help charities resolve challenges to their legacies.

Highlights
  • Commercial disputes Assisting a corporate client to settle a complex dispute against a claims management company in connection with the litigation against RBS following its 2008 rights issue
  • Advising a large international medical charity on how to negotiate an early exit out of a complicated and expensive IT Services Agreement
  • Helping a private client issue proceedings for breach of a joint venture agreement and to obtain an interim injunction for the preservation of trust assets
  • Working with a well-known children’s charity to successfully defend allegations of breach of a fundraising agreement
  • Acting for an education charity in a debt claim to win a Court judgment in its favour and an order for the other side to pay 100% of its legal costs
  • Member and governance disputes Helping an international aid client handle a sensitive dispute with a former trustee, and on its duties to the Charity Commission in light of the disputed matters
  • Assisting a prominent trade members association facilitate an appeals process arising out of a dispute between its members
  • Helping an environmental charity deal with a complicated fraud committed by a senior officer, including advising on Serious Incident Reporting, governance matters and reputation management.
  • Duty of care issues Advising an international charity on its potential liabilities following the fatal injury of a fundraiser
  • Helping a leisure charity client respond to a Health and Safety Executive investigation following an incident at a public swimming pool
  • Working with a faith based charity to successfully defend historical allegations of abuse
  • Legacies, trusts and probate disputes Acting for a care home in its defence of a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependant) Act 1975
  • Helping a world renowned children’s charity successfully challenge a professional executor in the management of an estate and negotiate a reduction on their costs, helping to maximise the charity’s legacy
  • Advising a national health charity in relation to a dispute over the interpretation of the meaning of the gifts in a will
  • Assisting an international charity in relation to a suspected breach of trust by the executor of the estate